Repetitive sequences upstream of the pfg27/25 gene determine polymorphism in laboratory and natural lines of Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 247-257

  Sallicandro, Pina ^a   Paglia, Maria Grazia ^b   Hashim, Suhaila Omar ^c   Silvestrini, Francesco ^a   Picci, Leonardo ^a   Gentile, Marco ^b   Mulaa, Francis ^c   Alano, Pietro ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Genetic polymorphism; Genomic rearrangement; Malaria; P. falciparum; Repetitive DNA sequences

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 13; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOME; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE DELETION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0033745492     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00274-7     Document Type: Article

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